Farther to the right, McClernand and Hurlbut were gallantly coming on with their jaded men, the soldiers would fight--that was the great lesson of the battle.
If surprised, and driven off in consequence of surprise, that can hardly be wholly charged on them.
Four times McClernand regained and lost again the ground to the front of his division.
Similar were Hurlbut's fortunes.

But I must abandon these details.
Beginning at the left, we have followed the wave of successes that swept us forward again, from spot to spot, over the hard-lost fields of Sunday--our paeans of victory, the wild cheers of our successful soldiers, sounding the requiem of the fallen rebels, who have atoned for their treason by the brave man's death.
Nelson, Crittenden, McCook, Hurlbut, McClernand have borne their divisions through the fray.
It lasted longer on the right, and was as rarely interesting as the chess-game of a master.
Let us trace it through.

In speaking of the beginning of Monday's battle, I mentioned Major-Gen. Lew. Wallace's opening the ball at seven o'clock, by shelling with enfilading fires a rebel battery.
A few shots demonstrated to the rebels that their position was untenable.
The instant Sherman came in to protect his left, Wallace advanced his infantry.
The rebel battery at once limbered up and got out of the way. The advance had withdrawn the division from Sherman.
Making a left half-wheel, to get back into the neighborhood of our line, they advanced some two hundred yards, which brought them to a little elevation, with a broad open stretch to the front.

As the division halted on the crest of the swell, there passed before them a rare vision.
Away to the front were woods.
Through the edge of the timber, skirting the fields, the head of a rebel column appeared, marching past in splendid style on the double-quick.
Banner after banner appeared ; the “stars and bars” formed a long line, stretching parallel with Wallace's line of battle.
Regiment after regiment followed on, the line lengthened, and doubled and trebled; the head of the column was out of sight, and still they came.
Twenty regiments were counted passing through these woods.
The design was plain.
The rebels had abandoned the idea of forcing their way through our left, and now the manifest attempt was to turn our right.

Batteries were ordered up — Thompson's and Thurber's — and the whole column was shelled as it passed.
The rebels rapidly threw their artillery into position, and a brisk cannonading began.
After a time, while the fight still rested with the artillery, the rebels opened a new and destructive battery to the right, which our men soon learned to know as “Watson's Louisiana battery,” from the marks on the ammunition-boxes they forced it from time to time to leave behind.

Batteries, with a brigade of supporting infantry, were now moved forward over open fields under heavy fire, to contend against this new assailant the batteries opened, the sharpshooters were thrown out to the front to pick off the rebel artillerists, the brigade was ordered down on its face to protect it from the flying shell and grape.
For an hour and a half the contest lasted, while the body of the division was still delayed, waiting for Sherman.
By ten o'clock Sherman's right, under Col. Marsh, came up. He started to move across the fields.
The storm of musketry and grape was too much for him, and he fell back in good order.
Again he started on the double, and gained the woods.
The Louisiana battery was turned; Marsh's position left it subject to fire in flank and front, and it fled.
The other rebel batteries at once did the same; and Wallace's division, up in an instant, now that a master move had swept the board, pushed forward.
Before them were broad fallow fields, then a woody little ravine, then corn-fields, then woods.

The left brigade was sent forward.
It crossed the fallow fields, under ordinary fire, then gained the ravine, and was rushing across the corn-fields, when the same Louisiana steel rifled guns opened on them.
Dashing forward they reached a little ground-swell, behind which they dropped like dead men, while skirmishers were sent forward to silence the troublesome battery.
The skirmishers crawled forward till they gained a little knoll, not more than seventy-five yards from the battery.
Of course the battery opened on them.
They replied, if not so noisily, more to the purpose.
In a few minutes the battery was driven off, with artillerists killed, horses shot down, and badly crippled every way. But the affair cost us a brave man--Lieut.-Colonel Garber--who could not control his enthusiasm at the conduct of the skirmishers, and in his excitement incautiously exposed himself.
All this while rebel regiments were pouring up to attack the audacious brigade that was supporting the skirmishers, and fresh regiments from Wallace's division came up in time to checkmate the game.

But the battery was silenced.
“Forward,” was the division order.
Rushing across the corn-fields under heavy fire, they now met the rebels face to face in the woods.
The contest was quick, decisive.
Close, sharp, continuous musketry for a few minutes, and the rebels fell back.

Here, unfortunately Sherman's right gave way. Wallace's flank was exposed.
He instantly formed Col. Wood's (Seventy-sixth Ohio) in a new line of battle, in right angles with the real one, and with orders to protect the flank.
The Eleventh Indiana was likewise here engaged in a sharp engagement with the enemy attempting to flank, and for a time the contest waxed fierce.
But Sherman soon filled the place of his broken regiments; again Wallace's division poured forward, and again the enemy gave way.

By two o'clock the division was into the woods again, and for three quarters of a mile it advanced under a continuous storm of shot.
Then another contest or two with batteries — always met with skirmishers and sharp-shooting — then, by four o'clock, two hours later than on the right, a general

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